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P. B. DOWNING.

CURRENCY COUNTING TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. Is. 1918.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

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PHILIP B. DOWN'ING, 0F EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURRENCY-COUNTING TRAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 16, 1918. Serial No. 254,302.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP B. DOWNING, citizen of the United States, and a resident of Everett, in the county of Middlesex and My invention relates to currency counting trays for use in banks or wherever large numbers of bills are to be counted and its object is to provide a simple and convenient device whereby the counting of bills will be facilitated.

One embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

The particular embodiment of my invention selected for illustration comprises a flat oblong open-ended tray portion 1 provided with end and side flanges 2 which raise the same slightly above the table upon which it is placed for use, said flanges preferably having semi-circular openings 3 intermediate of their ends. Rising from the rear side of the tray are one or more stop members 4 shown in the present instance as semicircular lugs. A finger-moistening device herein shown as a sponge cup 5 containing a sponge 6 is connected with the forward end of the tray, said sponge cup being shown in the present instance as formed by a forwardly extending base portion 7 integral with one of said end flanges and having its lower surface flush with the lower surfaces of the end and side flanges. V

Preferably the entire device is made in one piece of any suitable material such as glass. The user will place a package of bills on the tray with their sides resting against the stop members 4 and their ends in proximity to the sponge cup so that in counting the same he will always have a convenient means for moistening his fingers.

It will be understood that various modifi- Patented Aug. 12, 1919.,

cations may be made in the particular device illustrated without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a currency counting tray, comprising a flat oblong openended tray portion, end and side flanges On the lower surface of the same, a stop member for bills arranged on one side of said PHILIP B. DOWNING.

Gopiu of this patent may be obtained tor five cents each, by addressing the "Gommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0." v 

